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Xtra builds compact cameras for creators who value mobility over complexity. The company’s lineup spans pocket gimbals, action cameras, and 360 degree capture systems, all designed around the idea that smaller gear gets used more often. Their Edge series brought 4K action cameras with large sensors to the sub-$350 range, while the Muse targets vloggers […]
Xtra Atto brings 54 g 4K capture to creators on the move Read More
NEWS – On January 23, 2026, NAVEE held its first global brand strategy event at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. This was not a typical product launch. It was a statement of intent. The company is making a clear push to evolve from a micro mobility brand into something much bigger, what it
NAVEE’s NO LIMITS Launch: What Silicon Valley Just Witnessed Read More
NEWS – Apple dropped its latest Black Unity collection piece today. The Unity Connection Braided Solo Loop honors Black History Month by weaving Pan-African flag colors into a design that rewards closer inspection. What sets this band apart from standard Braided Solo Loops is the layered color work. Apple’s precision-braiding machinery weaves recycled polyester yarn
Apple’s 2026 Black Unity Apple Watch Band Celebrates Connection Through Pan-African Colors Read More
NEWS – Firewalla has announced the Orange, a portable cybersecurity firewall with a built-in Wi-Fi 7 access point. The device targets home and small office networks, bringing Zero Trust Network Architecture and microsegmentation to users without requiring enterprise IT expertise to configure. Zero Trust, in a home context, means the network treats every device as
Firewalla Orange Brings Wi-Fi 7 and Zero Trust to a Portable Firewall Read More
A warehouse day rarely breaks in a dramatic way, it tightens in small places until everything feels slower. That’s a familiar kind of stress, and if you’ve ever watched a print queue crawl while cartons stack under bright lights, you already know how fast the mood changes. Price: TBD Where to buy: Bixolon Label printers
BIXOLON’s XD5 40II Series Brings Faster Speeds, More Memory, and Smarter Media Handling Read More
NEWS – Most rugged phones promise durability and deliver compromise. Thicker bezels, slower processors, camera systems that exist to check a marketing box. The 8849 Tank X takes a different approach entirely: it’s an expedition tool that happens to run Android 15, built around systems that actually matter when you’re miles from civilization. Night vision
8849 Tank X is a Night Vision Rugged Smartphone with Integrated Projector Read More
Dreame Technology used CES 2026 to announce something bigger than a new vacuum. The company revealed its Whole-home Smart Ecosystem, a unified product lineup spanning cleaning, climate, cooking, personal care, outdoor maintenance, and entertainment. For a brand best known for robot vacuums and cordless floor cleaners, this marks a significant pivot toward becoming a full
Dreame Expands Beyond Vacuums with a Six-Category Smart Home Ecosystem at CES 2026 Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – The Fender booth at CES sat in the middle of a crowded ballroom, surrounded by competing demos and constant foot traffic. The result was a steady layer of ambient noise that made careful, isolated listening nearly impossible. I spent about 10-minutes with their first consumer headphones and portable speakers, guided by
CES 2026 NEWS – Battery powered outdoor tools have come a long way. They are now real options for people who take yard work seriously. At CES 2026, STIHL is showing off three new battery powered tools for landscaping, pruning, and lawn care. The timing matters. Robots and automation get all the attention right now,
CES 2026 NEWS – After 15 years of covering CES, I thought I knew what to expect. This was my first year as owner and editor-in-chief of The Gadgeteer, though, and that shift in responsibility brought a different kind of learning curve. Here’s what nobody tells you about CES: the show floor isn’t where the
The Gadgeteer’s Best in Show at CES 2026: 25 products that earned our trophies this year Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – EV ownership has quietly created a new entertainment problem that nobody saw coming. Tesla Model Y drivers, in particular, have discovered that charging stops, campground stays, and scenic overlook parking sessions come with a lot of downtime and not much to do with it. Aurzen thinks portable projection is the answer,
Aurzen ZIP Cyber Edition Brings Tri-Fold Portable Projection to EV Road Trips at CES 2026 Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – Smart glasses have struggled because they rarely behave like something you would actually wear all day. Even Realities positions the Even G2 as everyday display smart glasses designed to show you information quietly without making you look like a tech demo. Instead of chasing cameras or flashy features, the company focuses
I Wore the Even G2 Through All of CES and Nobody Knew They Were Smart Glasses Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – The Fairland Group subsidiary unveiled a unified outdoor living platform alongside three flagship products, including two CES Innovation Awards honorees Most “smart garden” products are just app controlled tools with no real intelligence connecting them. Your pool cleaner doesn’t talk to your lawn mower. Your heat pump doesn’t know when your
CES 2026 NEWS – Gaming laptops have spent years making the same promise: desktop power you can take anywhere. The fine print always included a two kilogram chassis, a power brick the size of a paperback novel, and the kind of thermal noise that made coffee shop gaming a social liability. THUNDEROBOT’s ZERO Air, unveiled
THUNDEROBOT ZERO Air Puts an RTX 5070 in a 1.59 kg Gaming Laptop Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – Most electric scooters at CES play it safe. They nudge speed limits up by a few miles per hour, add a slightly larger battery, and call it innovation. The category has spent years optimizing for the same narrow use case: last-mile commuting in dense urban cores where portability matters more than
NAVEE’s UT5 Ultra X Treats Electric Scooters Like Actual Transportation Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – Most homeowners own three or four seasonal machines that each sit idle for months. Yarbo’s M Series, unveiled at CES 2026, replaces them with a single 36V modular platform: one tracked robot core with swap-on modules for mowing, snow clearing, leaf collection, and trimming. Two battery options, 10Ah and 20Ah, scale
One Yard Robot That Handles Mowing, Snow, Leaves, and Trimming: Yarbo M Series at CES 2026 Read More
CES NEWS 2026 – Beatbot, a global leader in smart pool robotics, today announced the Beatbot Sora 70, the first model in the Beatbot Sora Series, a product line built to deliver dependable everyday pool care through strong hardware performance and all-round value. The Sora 70 isn’t chasing the flagship market. It’s targeting pool owners
Beatbot Launches Sora 70: Full Coverage, Innovative Skimming, Zero Hassle Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – Screen size has always been a permanent choice made at checkout. Lenovo’s CES 2026 proof-of-concepts treat it as a variable you control in the moment. CES is full of prototypes that never ship, but Lenovo’s 2026 lineup doesn’t feel like a stunt. It feels like a stress test for what happens
CES 2026 NEWS – Special edition gaming hardware follows a predictable formula. Take an existing product, add a logo, maybe change the color scheme, charge a premium, and market it to fans who’ll buy anything associated with their favorite franchise. The actual design language rarely changes. The collaboration exists as licensing agreement rather than creative
ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Kojima Edition Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – Every sunset you’ve watched on a screen looked a little off. Every candlelit scene. Every warm skin tone under soft light. You probably thought that was just how screens worked. It wasn’t. Your display was guessing at colors it couldn’t actually produce. So the real question is: what else have you
163 Inches of Color You’ve Never Actually Seen Read More